Portrait of the Duke of Northumberland, Vase and Ornamental Frame, no. CCCLXXI ("Designs for Various Ornaments," pl. 56) July 26, 1792 Michelangelo Pergolesi This ornament design, numbered CCCLXXI, centers on a male portrait within an oval, surrounded by decorative elements, beneath a crown, and over a vase that supports two small smoking incense burners; the whole contained within a frame of fruits and birds. This is one of two prints in the group numbered 56 the other consists of dedicatory text to the memory of Hugh Percy Duke of Northumberland, patron of the arts. The portrait is engraved by Ignatius Joseph Van den Berghe, after Pierre Violet. The print comes from a group that Pergolesi made and published serially in London between 1777 and 1792. There is no title page, but a prospectus of ca. 1786 described the group as: "A great variety of original designs of vases, figures, medallions, friezes, pilasters, panels and other ornaments, in the Etruscan and grotesque style." The co
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